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Art is Imitating Life in Thomas Hardy's Poetry

awhile as an architect before devoting himself to literature as a full-time vocation. He married in 1874, and within ten years, t...

Irony in Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson

In five pages Robinson's poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's use of irony as a way of revealing how a wealthy man's life can b...

'Sonnet XIX' by John Milton

In six pages this paper discusses how Milton reveals his value to his Creator through verse in a consideration of such techniques ...

Nikki Giovanni's 'Dreams'

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of intent, tone, wording, and the poet's use of images. There are no other sources l...

A Poetic Explication of 'The Paper' by Merwin

In one page the images and themes presented in this poem are discussed with the conclusion drawn that this excellent prose belies ...

'Drowned Man of Esthwaite' by William Wordsworth

This Wordsworth poem is considered in six pages, considering the poet's childhood experiences in the prose about a drowned man and...

Paul Laurence Dunbar and Phillis Wheatley comparing the Work of the Two Authors

Although Paul Laurence Dunbar was born nearly a century after Wheatley's death, the two authors share common traits other than the...

John Donne's Poetry and Themes of Love and Death

In ten pages John Donne's poetry including 'Valediction Forbidding Mourning,' 'The Sunne Rising,' and 'The Anniversary' are exami...

Transitional Figure Petrarch

In nine pages this paper discusses how Petrarch provides the Medieval to Renaissance transition and examines the poet's letters an...

Influence of Death in the Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages the ways in which Poe's poems 'Lenore,' 'The Raven,' 'Annabel Lee,' and 'To Helen' are influenced by the deaths of th...

Religion and Romance in John Donne's Poetry

In six pages this report discusses how religion manifests itself in John Donne's love poetry with the soul's passions and spiritua...

Controversy and Kudos -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One of England's foremost poet and philosopher-critic during the Romantic Movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote some of the grea...

Comparison of Poems 'To the Evening Star' by William Blake and 'It is a Beauteous Evening' by William Wordsworth

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these poems in an analysis of each poet's voice and how it is influenced by imager...

Gwen Harwood's 'Suburban Sonnet'

one original thought or idea. This is an apt description for the language of Harwoods Suburban Sonnet, for in this work she prese...

Segregation, Determination, and the Poetry of Langston Hughes

In six pages this paper discusses the poet's narrators without gender, how he uses women, and how African American determination d...

'dandelions' by Deborah Austin

reader that the barrage has lasted all day yesterday and today with "deafening sight." This figurative language mixes sensory in...

Analysis of 'She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways' by William Wordsworth

This paper presents an analysis of the poet's feelings for a young woman as expressed in William Wordsworth's 'She Dwelt Among the...

Andrew Marvell's Poem 'To His Coy Mistress'

The thesis argued in this five page poetic analysis is that the message that the lady should put her concerns about extramarital s...

Analysis of Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

In five pages this paper analyzes Gwendolyn Brooks' poems including 'We Real Cool' and 'Kitchenette Building' in a consideration o...

'God's Grandeur' by Gerard Manley Hopkins

In 5 pages this poem featuring nature is analyzed in terms of how it represents the poet's Catholicism. There are 5 sources cited...

Pedro Pietri's Poetry

that this crisis of space and language has been most deeply problematized, and yet where a possible alternative lies for these wri...

Overview of the Life and Times of Robert Frost

In 5 pages this paper discusses the importance of woods symbolism in many of Robert Frost's poems in this overview that considers ...

Audre Lorde's Life, Poetry, and Activism

In seven and a half pages this poet's life, poetry, and activism are examined in an analysis that focuses primarily upon 'Power,' ...

Why Homer Was Murdered by Emily in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

A.E. Housman/An Athlete Dying Young

and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...

Langston Hughes & Raymond Carver

sore" (line 4)? The structure of the poem asks a series of questions that, in themselves, suggest the answers, which are all found...

Interpretations of First and Second Generation Romantic Poets A Chance Encounter

In a paper consisting of 7 pages an examination of the first and second generation Romantic poets is presented. A fictional descr...

Analysis Cinderella

In one page this much loved children's story is analyzed in terms of its retelling that is based on the film by Walt Disney as it ...

Puppet Show Adventure of Walt Disney's Pinocchio

In one page this paper examines how small children can acquire language and improve vocabulary by viewing this Walt Disney interpr...

Walt Disney as a Role Model

His mainstay -- the inimitable Mickey Mouse -- evolved around the time of the Great Depression, when hopes of prosperity had peris...